Show TO OW MISSION san juan capistrano Cap latrano will live again after long years of sulfice Sll fice all who have heard of tho the picturesque 0 old id franciscan Ills missions of california will bo be In terestea to learn that sun juan capistrano tho the most poetic of all these ruined structures which contribute so indich to the foreign look of our italy la Is soon again to le be made the contro centro of religious activity and that after nearly a century of neglect its ita buildings are to be restored to their original estate this mission Is on oil tile the railway line between los angeles and san diego and by reason of being visible from tho the railroad la Is to tn eastern travelers perhaps the best known of nil california missions except santa barbara anil and san sail gabriel which are aie among tile the regulation sights eighth for visitors to to south ern ein california with the restoration of san sail juan capistrano and the resumption of residence there by tho the franciscan francl scan brotherhood it too will no doubt soon become a tourist rew rit tho the first year ear of the american independence ine ille depend dependence e saw work begun upon this edifice in what was it a vast wilderness inhabited only by indians tile I 1 he site bite I 1 ls in a lovely loicl sequestered seques val al f a t esy i i i aaa 5 aa tl aai rt 1 M THE I 1 I 1 ill nil 1 ley which beginning back in the can yona of the coast range winds among grassy knolls and great treeless tro elesa hills out to the pacific upon which it opens three miles west of the mission with the aid of the indians indiana over whom tho the padres exerted both temporal and spiritual dominion the franciscans here the most pretentious of all the california mission churches instead of being constructed of the customary adobe brick of the country it was built of stone laid out tit in tho the form of a nitin cross with a great cloistered quadrangle adjoining here besides administering to the spiritual welfare of the indiana and gathering them into the fold of the church the fathers set them to the care and the cultivation of the land which yielded great wealth of cattle sheep grain brain grapes ind and olives |